'Night Mother: The Playwright

Marsha Norman
Marsha Norman received the 1991 Tony Award for the musical The Secret Garden. She is also the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'Night, Mother. For that play, she also received the Hull-Warriner Award and the Susan Smith Blackburn prize. Her first play, Getting Out, received the Gassner Medallion and the Newsday Oppenheimer Award. Other plays include Third and Oak, The Laundromat, The Pool Hall, Sarah and Abraham, and Loving Daniel Boone. She also wrote the book and lyrics for Broadway's The Red Shoes and the book for The Color Purple. She has published a novel, "The Fortuneteller," and written for film and television. She has received grants from the NEA, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Ms. Norman serves on the Council of the Dramatists Guild. She is currently the co-chair of the graduate playwriting department at Julliard along with Christopher Durang, author of New City's winter hit Miss Witherspoon.